IE's find

Hi,
Does anyone know how to implement Internet Browser's Find ? What i need is to write an application that displays a web page but i want the application to automatically find the string that i want. For example, a page that has a list of products sorted alphabetically and normally, to find a product on that page, we use IE's Find to find the string that we want. What i want to do is write an application that gets only the product's price that i want and show it on an edit box. I tried using the raw HTML data that i obtain from the page but the problem is that on certain page, it's doesn't show all the raw HTML data. Thanks.

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If from examining the View Source, you can determine that the datum you want has a name or ID, then there is another way. Let me know...
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Hsiang2kAuthor Commented: 2003-11-11

Hi,
The problem is that on some page, even using view source, it doesn't show all the HTML code and the product string is not in the html. if i go to a page that give me all it's HTML code, then i'll have no problem finding the string that i want.
What about MS Web browser ? That active x can show the page like IE but the problem is how to get the string that i want from the active x's display. Thanks.

>> even using view source, it doesn't show all the HTML code and the product string is not in the html.

If it is not in the HTML, then where is it?
If you can't see it in View Source, then I don't know how you can even get started with your task.

Please provide a URL or a complete description of the data you can see in the browser and the data that you need to obtain for your program.

>> What about MS Web browser ?
Yes, you can use this. I assumed that you knew how to do that, but I can show you how. However, we can't even start on that process without *first* being able to pinpoint the desired data by looking at View Source.

-- Dan

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